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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 568

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the development

and operation of centers to conduct research with respect to contraception

and centers to conduct research with respect to infertility, and for other

purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 25, 1993

Mrs. SCHROEDER (for herself and Ms. SNOWE) introduced the following bill;

which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for

the development and operation of centers to conduct

research with respect to contraception and centers to

conduct research with respect to infertility, and for other

purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Contraception and

5 Infertility Research Centers Act of 1993’’.
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1 SEC. 2. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS FOR RESEARCH CENTERS

2 WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACEPTION AND RE3 SEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO INFER4 TILITY.

5 Subpart 7 of part C of title IV of the Public Health

6 Service Act, as amended by section 3 of Public Law 101–

7 613, is amended by adding at the end the following new

8 section:

9 ‘‘RESEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO

10 CONTRACEPTION AND INFERTILITY

11 ‘‘SEC. 452A. (a) The Director of the Institute, after

12 consultation with the advisory council for the Institute,

13 shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public

14 or nonprofit private entities for the development and oper15 ation of centers to conduct activities for the purpose of

16 improving methods of contraception and centers to con17 duct activities for the purpose of improving methods of

18 diagnosis and treatment of infertility.

19 ‘‘(b) In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of

20 the Institute shall, subject to the extent of amounts made

21 available in appropriations Acts, provide for the establish22 ment of three centers with respect to contraception and

23 for two centers with respect to infertility.

24 ‘‘(c)(1) Each center assisted under this section shall,

25 in carrying out the purpose of the center involved—
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1 ‘‘(A) conduct clinical and other applied re2 search, including—

3 ‘‘(i) for centers with respect to contracep4 tion, clinical trials of new or improved drugs

5 and devices for use by males and females (in6 cluding barrier methods); and

7 ‘‘(ii) for centers with respect to infertility,

8 clinical trials of new or improved drugs and de9 vices for the diagnosis and treatment of infertil10 ity in males and females;

11 ‘‘(B) develop protocols for training physicians,

12 scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health

13 professionals;

14 ‘‘(C) conduct training programs for such indi15 viduals;

16 ‘‘(D) develop model continuing education pro17 grams for such professionals; and

18 ‘‘(E) disseminate information to such profes19 sionals and the public.

20 ‘‘(2) A center may use funds provided under sub21 section (a) to provide stipends for health and allied health

22 professionals enrolled in programs described in subpara23 graph (C) of paragraph (1), and to provide fees to individ24 uals serving as subjects in clinical trials conducted under

25 such paragraph.
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1 ‘‘(d) The Director of the Institute shall, as appro2 priate, provide for the coordination of information among

3 the centers assisted under this section.

4 ‘‘(e) Each center assisted under subsection (a) shall

5 use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from

6 a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting such re7 quirements as may be prescribed by the Director of the

8 Institute.

9 ‘‘(f) Support of a center under subsection (a) may

10 be for a period not exceeding 5 years. Such period may

11 be extended for one or more additional periods not exceed12 ing 5 years if the operations of such center have been re13 viewed by an appropriate technical and scientific peer re14 view group established by the Director and if such group

15 has recommended to the Director that such period should

16 be extended.

17 ‘‘(g) For the purpose of carrying out this section,

18 there are authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for

19 fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for

20 each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.’’.
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1 SEC. 3. LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH

2 RESPECT TO CONTRACEPTION AND INFER3 TILITY.

4 Part F of title IV of the Public Health Service Act

5 (42 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec6 tion 487A the following section:

7 ‘‘LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH

8 RESPECT TO CONTRACEPTION AND INFERTILITY

9 ‘‘SEC. 487B. (a) The Secretary, in consultation with

10 the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and

11 Human Development, shall establish a program of enter12 ing into agreements with qualified health professionals (in13 cluding graduate students) under which such health pro14 fessionals agree to conduct research with respect to con15 traception, or with respect to infertility, in consideration

16 of the Federal Government agreeing to repay, for each

17 year of such service, not more than $20,000 of the prin18 cipal and interest of the educational loans of such health

19 professionals.

20 ‘‘(b) The provisions of sections 338B, 338C, and

21 338E shall apply to the program established in subsection

22 (a) to the same extent and in the same manner as such

23 provisions apply to the National Health Service Corps

24 Loan Repayment Program established in subpart III of

25 part D of title III.
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1 ‘‘(c) Amounts appropriated for carrying out this sec2 tion shall remain available until the expiration of the sec3 ond fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year for which

4 the amounts were appropriated.’’.

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